http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/index.html Instructional enhancements and commentary for English 10A. 2003-07-02T05:43:50+00:00 en-US http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/2003_07_01_index.html#105712463069354012 Professor Allen, in his discussion about the Canterbury pilgrimage, referred to the medieval fondness for pilgrimages, especially to that most famous of pilgrimage destinations, St. James/Santiago Compostella, in Spain. El Camino Compostela is still a p Lisa Spangenberg 2003-07-02T05:43:50+00:00 http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/2003_07_01_index.html#105712357772773490 There's more stuff about Chaucer on the web than you really could possibly use, and a lot of it is, well, pretty bad. But you can't go wrong with Larry Benson's site. The easiest way to learn to read Chaucer's English is to read it aloud. This can be a lo Lisa Spangenberg 2003-07-02T05:25:22+00:00 http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/2003_06_01_index.html#105701221422514655 If you are not using Bruin On Line (BOL) to dial up UCLA, and are not on campus, but are using your own ISP (AOL, Earthlink, Compuserve, etc.) for Internet access, you will neet to set your web browser to use UCLA's "Proxy Server." This means you will be Lisa Spangenberg 2003-06-30T22:25:52+00:00 http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/2003_06_01_index.html#105694702607101464 Now that you've heard some Old English, you might want to see some Anglo-Saxon artifacts. Sutton Hoo was the site of a ship-burial, containing a long ship, and filled with all that the deceased Anglo-Saxon king might need in the after life. You can see Lisa Spangenberg 2003-06-28T05:38:13+00:00 http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/2003_06_01_index.html#105694596976236495 About Maldon The Battle of Maldon is both an Old English poem, and an actual battle in 991, listed in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Though the poem is a literary depiction, there are a number of details that can be historically documented. According Lisa Spangenberg 2003-06-28T05:05:54+00:00 http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/2003_06_01_index.html#105694588639981919 The Germanic tribes who settled England are traditionally described as the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes. You can see an animated map of their migration and settlement patterns here. They each spoke slightly different Germanic dialects. Eventually, Lisa Spangenberg 2003-06-26T03:14:46+00:00 http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/english10a/2003_06_01_index.html#105650313804667757 Professor Allen discussed the relationship between English and the Indo-European family of languages yesterday. We'll start this week with poems written in Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, but that have been translated into Modern English. You can hear a Lisa Spangenberg 2003-06-25T01:03:33+00:00